more?
(09/11/1973 and 12/07/1975)
Chileans, who lost at least 3,000 people because of a military coup that the U.S. supported on September 11, 1973, or the East Timorese, who lost 200,000 people (1/3 of the population) after we assisted Indonesia in their destruction of that nation beginning with the invasion of the small island on December 7, 1975. Of course, Chile's population was only 10-12 million at the time, and in comparison to our loss of 3,000 people on 09/11/2001, it would be like losing 80-90,000 U.S. citizens. The Chileans had no such recourse against us for aiding General Augusto Pinochet in his torture and murder of thousands of his people, which we supported.
Nor have the East Timorese, or the dozens of other poor nations we have assisted in the repression and/or destruction of, been given the right to retaliate against us. Government documents detailing the U.S. involvement in the Chilean coup and the genocide of East Timor are provided in full text on the National Security Archive's website, supported by George Washington University:
http://www.hfni.gsehd.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/.
The only reason we were involved was for profit. Not national security.
if you want to call it half truths, fine, but if you'd look into it you will find out its true
If one were to look closely at the past 58 years, one would be hard pressed to find a single U.S. military or C.I.A. intervention that has brought us one iota of safety, or, for that matter, that has actually been done for national defense purposes. The guy with the masters hit the nail right on the head. Its about politcs and business. Thats it.
Bush knows that this war will altogether increase the likely hood of terrorism, so whats his reason for going there...obviosly not to make this country a safer place...thats for damn sure. I mean fuck....